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BrandoElFollito 5 hours ago

I was surprised to read that in Europe, the closest country to have nuclear weapons are the Netherlands (if they wanted to)

https://politics.stackexchange.com/q/90870/11473

thenthenthen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The Netherlands has US nukes: https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vliegbasis_Volkel

Apparently also Belgium , Italy, Turkey, Germany have the same type.

BrandoElFollito an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes, but these are US nukes, under complete US control. US decides when and where to use them. In other words, these countries are launch sites for the US army.

What I had in mind are nukes under the jurisdiction of a country (such as France or UK in Europe)

tasoeur 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you mean as a new development? Because France (and the UK) already had them for a while. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_...

BrandoElFollito 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, new development.

When Trump dumped his support for NATO in Europe, everyone was looking at France to shield them and deter attacks. I was wondering if other EU countries were reasonably close to building a bomb and I found this question.